[ckan-dev] RFC: CKAN / Data Packages / JSON Table Schema integration

Adrià Mercader adria.mercader at okfn.org
Fri Oct 30 11:34:43 UTC 2015


Hi everybody,

We pushed  a proposed spec for closer integration with Data Packages
[1] and JSON Table Schema [2] in CKAN:

https://github.com/ckan/ideas-and-roadmap/pull/160
https://github.com/ckan/ideas-and-roadmap/blob/datapackages-spec/specs/datapackages/README.md

This work opens a lot of exciting opportunities for publishing tabular
data in CKAN: describing data schemas, improving data importing and
visualization, etc. We'd love to hear feedback from people interested
in this. Please leave your comments on the above PR or on this thread

Thanks!

Adrià


[1] http://data.okfn.org/doc/data-package

[2] http://dataprotocols.org/json-table-schema/



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